Huang, Chienhsun, Assistant Professor

E-mail: huang_ch@fudan.edu.cn or chhuang1012@163.com

From 2000 to 2004, Chien-Hsun Huang studied life sciences at Department of Life Science of Taiwan University. In 2004 he went to Institute of Plant Biology of Taiwan University for both Master’s degree and Ph.D. degree, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Biology in 2012. From 2012 to 2013, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Institute of Plant Biology of Taiwan University with Prof. Tsung-Luo Jinn, studying on the mechanisms associated with stress resistance by using biochemical approaches and molecular genetics. From 2013 to 2016, he was a post-doctoral fellow at School of Life Sciences of Fudan University with Prof. Hong Ma, focusing on plant evolution with bioinformatics and genomics. From 2016 to now, he is an assistant professor at School of Life Sciences of Fudan University.

Research Interests

Dr. Chien-Hsun Huang is particularly interested in plant evolution, including phylogenetic, morphological and biological topics, using molecular genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. He has focused on molecular evolution of gene families and phylogenomics of land plants, especially large angiosperm families with agriculturally important species.

Selected publications

1. Qi X, Kuo LY, Guo C, Li H, Li Z, Qi J, Wang L, Hu Y, Xiang J, Zhang C, Guo J, Huang CH#, Ma H#. (2018) A well-resolved fern nuclear phylogeny reveals the evolution history of numerous transcription factor families. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 127:961-977.
2. Xiang Y#, Huang CH#, Hu Y, Wen J, Li S, Yi T, Chen H, Xiang J, Ma H. (2017) Evolution of Rosaceae fruit types based on nuclear phylogeny in the context of geological times and genome duplication. Mol Biol Evol. 34(2):262-281.
3. Huang CH, Zhang C, Liu M, Hu Y, Gao T, Qi J, Ma H. (2016) Multiple polyploidization events across Asteraceae with two nested events in the early history revealed by nuclear phylogenomics. Mol Biol Evol. 33(11):2820-2835.
4. Huang CH, Sun R, Hu Y, Zeng L, Zhang N, Cai L, Zhang Q, Koch M A, Al-Shehbaz I, Edger P P, Pires J C, Tan D Y, Zhong Y, Ma H. (2016) Resolution of Brassicaceae phylogeny using nuclear genes uncovers nested radiations and supports convergent morphological evolution. Mol Biol Evol. 33: 394-412.
5. Kuo WY#, Huang CH#, Liu AC, Cheng CP, Li SH, Chang WC, Weiss C, Azem A, Jinn TL. (2013) CHAPERONIN 20 mediates iron superoxide dismutase (FeSOD) activity independent of its co-chaperonin role in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. New Phytol. 197: 99-110.
6. Huang CH#, Kuo W#, Weiss C, Jinn T. (2012) Copper chaperone-dependent and -independent activation of three copper-zinc superoxide dismutase homologs localized in different cellular compartments in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 158: 737-746.
7. Wu T#, Liao M#, Kuo W#, Huang CH#, Hsieh H#, Jinn T. (2011) Characterization of copper/zinc and manganese superoxide dismutase in green bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii): Cloning, expression and regulation. Plant Physiol and Biochem. 49: 195-200. (# Equal contribution)